As hackers advance, government, businesses must stay step ahead

PBN Staff

10/04/2019

OPENING FOR HACKERS? The R.I. Board of Elections is studying whether modems added to voting machines in 2016 now represent a cybersecurity risk because they transmit encrypted data over the internet. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI — GOV. GINA M. Raimondo announced in a tweet Monday that she will sign an executive order postponing the state's primary to June 2 and switching to primarily by-mail ballots. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, technological upgrades can quickly become outdated. And no government or business can afford to think they are too small to be targeted by hackers, as local specialists in the field have preached at PBN’s annual cybersecurity summits in recent years. Two focus stories in this week’s issue highlight both

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